Each of the clues below has a different type of Bird in it. The bird's name may be the answer or part of the wordplay.
Can you find all the birds? [Answers updated]
Times 25048: Bird thus soaring over quarry (6) OSPREY
SO (thus) soaring i.e. reversed, PREY (quarry)
Times 25106: One that flies from a part of NW Europe (3) AUK
A UK (part of NW Europe)
Guardian 25556 (Araucaria): They say sea is seabird's water supply (7) CISTERN
C (sea, they say) IS TERN (seabird)
FT 13669 (Sleuth): Bird circling lake making one shrink back (6) FLINCH
FINCH (bird) around L (lake)
Guardian 26160 (Picaroon): Unoriginal commenter's standard twaddle (6) PARROT
PAR (standard) ROT (twaddle)
Times 25147: Struggling university secretary gets the bird (2,7,2) UP AGAINST IT
U (university) PA (secretary) GAINS (gets) TIT (the bird)
Guardian 25030 (Rufus): Wading bird? It's a ruddy duck! (8) FLAMINGO
FLAMING (ruddy) O (duck)
Sunday Times 4509 (Dean Mayer): Led, as a bird would in race (11) SPEARHEADED
A RHEA (bird) 'D (would) in SPEED (race)
FT14773 (Bradman): Bird not high up first to reach ground (3) OWL
LOW (not high up), with the initial 'L' moved to the end
Guardian 25966 (Philistine): Really gutted, having eaten bird, no longer hungry, alas (11) REGRETFULLY
R[eall]Y around EGRET (bird) + FULL (no longer hungry)
Enjoy bird-spotting!
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